Floating fish-trap.



No. 675,508 Patented luna 4, I90l.

G. DEAN.

FLOATING FISH TRAP. (Application iled Mar. 1, 1901.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 675,508, dated J une 4, 1901. Application led March l, 1901. Serial No. 49,501. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, GEORGE DEAN, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Samish, in the county of Skagit and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Floating Fish-Traps, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to fish-traps; and the object of the invention is to provide certain new and useful improvements in floating traps whereby fish maybe trapped in situations prohibiting the used of fixed traps.

The invention consists principally of two floats which support the netting-frame depending therefrom.

The invention further consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and pointed ont in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the gures.

Figure 1 is a vertical side elevation of my improved trap. Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively end and plan views of the same.

The floats 1 of any approved construction are connected together by cross-beams 2 and suitable braces, such as 3, so that a very substantial framework for rigidly securing the floats and a proper support of the depending skeleton frame of the trap is secured. The said skeleton frame comprises a horizontal bottom or floor portion il, together with a nurnber of vertical rods 5, firmly connected thereto, but slidably connected to the floats and framework 2 3 to permit the skeleton frame being immersed in the water to varying depths. The depending frame is raised or lowered by lines G, passing through pulleys 7 and operated by drums or spools 8, mounted upon shafts 9, journaled in suitable supports upon the deck of the vessel or upon the upper framework.

The door, sides, walls, and ends, excepting openings left for communication between the compartments are covered with netting, so as to forma pot 1O and a heart 11. The pot being closed except upon the end adjacent to the heart, where the Walls terminate in an enu trance 12, projecting into the interior of the pot. The heart has at one end an entrance o13, projecting interiorly therein, and at the opposite end or adjacent to the pot an exit 14., which registers with the aforesaid pot-entrance 12. The openings 13 let of the heart are provided with gates of netting slidable upon rods 1314,which are intended to prevent nthe escape of the fish entrained within the heart when the pot is raised for the removal of the fish entrapped therein. Lines 15, with lead-pulleys 16 and drums 17, mounted upon shafts 18, are used for handling the said netting that is connected by being seized along its top edges to the floats and upper framework, the depending skeleton frame being used to confine the netting to the desired shape or form.

19 represents lead-walls that may be extended n diverging lines from the entrance of the heart to any distances and may be supported by independent floats or fixed piles.

The trap is connected by bridle-lines 2O to anchors for securing the same in a suitable location in the fishing-ground- Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A floating fish-trap in combination with a lead or leads, of floats rigidly secured together, a skeleton frame depending therefrom and adapted to beimmersed to varying depths, and netting dividing the trap into compartments with communicative connection therebetween and between one of said compartments and the said lead or leads, substantially as set forth.

2. A floating fish-trap in combination with a lead or leads, of floats rigidly secured together, a skeleton frame depending therefrom and adapted to be immersed to varying depths, netting dividing the trap into compartments with communicative connection therebetween and between one of said compartments and the said lead or leads, and movable gates to the said communicative connections, substantially as set forth.

In a iioating fish-trap, the combination with floats, a frame rigidly connecting said floats, a lead, and a skeleton frame depend- IOO ing from said floats, of a netting attached at floats and independently of each other, subxo its upper edge to the said floats and adapted stantially as and for the purposes set forth.

to loe raised or lowered independently of the In testimony whereof I affix my signature said skeleton frame, substantially as and for in presence of two Witnesses.

5 the purposes set forth.

4. In afloatin g fish-trap, comprising a heart GERGE DEAN' Vand a pot, in combination with floats, of a Witnesses: skeleton frame and a netting, andA means to PIERRE BARNES,

raise and lower the same relatively to the WM. IVISIRTIN.V 

